Use covers in a sentence
Sentences ending with covers
- By these it will be seen how wide a ground it covers. [6]
- She does not raise half the dust, nor fill her own eyes and mouth with it,--but she goes into all the corners, and attends to the leaves as much as the covers. [6]
- A great portion of the best writing and reading literary, scientific, professional, miscellaneous--comes to us now, at stated intervals, in paper covers. [3]
- She read nothing but stories in paper covers. [4]
- Say," he demanded aggressively, "are Parr and Langmaid any better than Beatty, or any of the hold-up men Beatty covers? [9]
- His book was a wretchedly poor one, generally speaking, and it could be no credit to either of us to appear between its covers. [5]
Short sentences using covers
- That covers the ground. [5]
- He covers the entire ground. [5]
- It covers acres. [9]
More example sentences with the word covers in them
- Bound a hundred years ago, perhaps, and one of the rich old browned covers gone--what a pity! [6]
- This tarnished gold will never brighten, these battered covers will stand no more wear and tear; close them, and leave them to the spider and the book-worm. [6]
- It covers a wide stretch of time--I don't know how many years--and in the course of it the chief actress is reincarnated several times: four times she is a more or less young woman, and once she is a lad. [5]
- This covers the whole ground, from the settlement of a Territory till it reaches the degree of maturity entitling it to form a State Constitution. [7]
- He lies in Westminster Abbey, it is true, but he would probably have preferred the upper side of his own hearth-stone to the under side of the slab which covers him. [6]
- It is a vast marble collonaded corridor extending around a great unoccupied square of ground; its broad floor is marble, and on every slab is an inscription--for every slab covers a corpse. [5]
- It enables him to see with the mind's eye through the opaque tissues down to the bone on which they lie, as if the skin were transparent as the cornea, and the organs it covers translucent as the gelatinous pulp of a medusa. [3]
- After Mass, when they had finished their coffee in the dining room where the loose covers had been removed from the furniture, a servant announced that the carriage was ready, and Marya Dmitrievna rose with a stern air. [2]
- The publication of the stories was continuous, and at the time that Pierre and His People appeared several of those which came between the covers of A Romany of the Snows were passing through the pages of magazines in England and America. [11]
- The mare and the sorrel of Cumner's Son I put inside the house that covers the well, and I lifted two stones from the floor and set them against the entrance. [11]
- And is not the sky that covers us one roof, which makes us all one family? [6]
- But horse-racing is the most public way of gambling, and with all its immense attractions to the sense and the feelings,--to which I plead very susceptible,--the disguise is too thin that covers it, and everybody knows what it means. [6]
- Then comes out the grand reserve-reason which covers everything and renders it simply impossible ever to corner a Phrenologist. [6]
- The fall of the drapery that covers the Muse's figure is perfectly thought out with reference to possibility--rich, broadly handled, and at the same time of surprising delicacy. [10]
- The fable covers the doctrine that there is One Man; present to individuals only in a partial manner; and that we must take the whole of society to find the whole man. [6]
- For those that swim she has provided a more than imperial domain--a domain which is miles deep and covers four-fifths of the globe. [5]
- The thinner this sort of thing is spread out, the more surface it covers, of course. [4]
- At last I roused my energies and snatched the covers back to their place and held them with a strong grip. [5]
- Thus the system, properly and logically ordered, is neat, compact, clearly defined, and covers the whole ground. [5]
- Mark Twain's answer pretty fully covers the details of this undertaking. [5]
- It covers a period of a little more than thirteen months, from the arrival at Cape Henry on April 26, 1607, to the return of Captain Nelson in the Phoenix, June 2, 1608. [4]
- Master Gridley took out a great volume from the lower shelf,--a folio in massive oaken covers with clasps Like prison hinges, bearing the stately colophon, white on a ground of vermilion, of Nicholas Jenson and his associates. [6]
- Says it's mud, or some sich kind o' nastiness that sticks on n' covers up everything. [5]
- The brutal communism of the letters it forms covers the page it fills with the most uniformly uninteresting characters. [6]
- Near the center of the island one catches glimpses, through the trees, of ten vast stone four-story buildings, each of which covers an acre of ground. [5]
- The botanical garden of Sydney covers thirty-eight acres, beautifully laid out and rich with the spoil of all the lands and all the climes of the world. [5]
- These attenuated volumes of poetry in fancy bindings open their covers at one like so many little unfledged birds, and one does so long to drop a worm in,--a worm in the shape of a kind word for the poor fledgling! [6]
- The passionate stirring of a soul, whether it be the result of joy or of sorrow, among us moderns covers its features with a veil, which it had no need of among the ancients. [10]
- Charity covers a multitude of sins, but it also reveals a multitude of virtues. [5]
- I only mean, Mr. Lyon," she added, with a softening of manner, "that all Americans do not think that rank covers a multitude of sins. [4]
- She is thoroughly modern, and that statement covers a great deal of ground. [5]
- A telegram from Melbourne to San Francisco covers approximately 20,000 miles--the equivalent of five-sixths of the way around the globe. [5]
- Babbling covers a lot of secrets. [11]
- It covers a large territory, the streets run at right angles, the avenues to the ocean take the names of the states. [4]
- But how much its last sentence covers with its soothing tribute! [6]
- However, my standard is a pretty wide one and covers a good deal of territory. [5]
- Naples, with its immediate suburbs, contains six hundred and twenty-five thousand inhabitants, but I am satisfied it covers no more ground than an American city of one hundred and fifty thousand. [5]
- What's the reason, I wonder, that all the little earthen pots blow their covers off and froth over in rhymes at such a great rate, while the big iron pots keep their lids on, and do all their simmering inside? [6]
- His 'antipatia,' as his man called it, must be one which covers a wide ground, to account for his self-isolation,--and the color hypothesis seems as plausible as any. [6]
- Perhaps it was hardly worth while to provide and open a new one; but here it lies before me, and I hope I may find something between its covers which will justify me in coming once more before my old friends. [6]
- I suppose you had not seen the call for five hundred thousand, made the day before, and which, I suppose, covers the case. [7]
- The inclosed to Governor Seward covers two notes to him, copies of which you find open for your inspection. [7]
- It is only good art that the cover of the novel and the covers of the characters shall be in harmony. [4]
- I set out for Philadelphia on the morrow, Tuesday the twenty-third, there beyond question to meet my Captain, once more united to his brave wounded companions under that roof which covers a household of as noble hearts as ever throbbed with human sympathies. [6]
- A. Oh, I fear you--you are fatal when darkness covers your brow; yet I know not why I should fear, since I never wronged you in all my life. [5]
- All these traveling effects of Prince Andrew's were in very good order: new, clean, and in cloth covers carefully tied with tapes. [2]
- There is little doubt that but for the curse invoked upon the person who should disturb his bones, in the well-known lines on the slab which covers him, he would rest, like Napoleon, like Washington, in a fitting receptacle of marble or porphyry. [6]
- According to the degree to which it covers him, his death will be near or more remote. [6]
- The Dred Scott decision covers the whole ground, and while it occupies it, there is no room even for the shadow of a starved pigeon to occupy the same ground. [7]
- The snow gradually covers everything very quietly, however. [4]
- The king's amnesty covers every one except the leaders--that lets you off. [11]
- This single illustration covers a wider ground than the special function to which it belongs. [3]
- The Warmouth plantation covers a vast deal of ground, and the hospitality of the Warmouth mansion is graduated to the same large scale. [5]
- Not only the contents of the books and periodicals, but the covers, must be made to catch the fleeting fancy. [4]
- So at Stratford,--the Cloptons and the John a Combes, with all their memorials, cannot make us lift our eyes from the stone which covers the dust that once breathed and walked the streets of Stratford as Shakespeare. [6]
- It was a careless word to put in the treaty, and covers too much. [5]
- I think the book has harmony, although the first story in it covers eighty-two pages, while some of the others, like 'The Marriage of the Miller', are less than four pages in length. [11]
- It covers the body with dry, white scales, inflames the eyes, and causes premature decripitude. [5]
- I would go back to the deserted house, and I could not bear to look in at the nursery door, at the little beds with covers flung over them. [9]
- No command ever appears spontaneously, or itself covers a whole series of occurrences; but each command follows from another, and never refers to a whole series of events but always to one moment only of an event. [2]
- The statues are all large; the palace is grand; the park covers a fair-sized county; the avenues are interminable. [5]
- No man makes a quarrel with me over the counterpane that covers a mother, with her new-born infant at her breast. [3]
- But there is a potential, though invisible, picture hid in the creamy film which covers it. [6]
- Before you is a marble slab, which covers the Stone of Unction, whereon the Saviour's body was laid to prepare it for burial. [5]
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